I need a gangsta To love me better Than all the others do To always forgive me Ride or die with me That's just what gangsters do I'm fucked up, I'm black and blue I'm built for it, all the abuse I got secrets, that nobody, nobody knows

Nobody's perfect! Everybody makes mistakes You live and you learn it! Nobody's perfect Everybody knows what I'm talkin' 'bout I gotta work it! I gotta work it! (work it!) And if I'm messing up sometimes Everybody knows what, what I'm talkin' 'bout

I know all about the honor of god, I've got bases to cover Melody walks through the door And memory flies out the window And nobody knows what they want 'til they finally let it all go Six o'clock on a Christmas morning, And for what?

Baby what you hiding under that halo? That little bit of rebel nobody knows That turn it up, burn it up all night Wanna do a little something wrong kind of right Bet you got a little sway hiding in those hips A little bit of salt in your sweet kiss Why

Don't break character Is this real or just a dream? When they knock you down You've got a lot of heart Rise up like the sun Labor till the work is done And go on to bed Nobody knows what lies ahead

When you're dying in LA Every face along the boulevard is a dreamer just like you You looked at death in a tarot card and you saw what you had to do But nobody knows you now And nobody owes you now The power, the power, the power Oh the power, the power,

I made more waves than the ocean What nobody knows, nobody knows I’m just a ghost that’s starting to show I’ve been on the wrong side searching for love If I could live forever Could I be wrong about everything? Days feeling hollow Against my will they

And what do we want from each other? Tell me your dreams What do they mean? Where do we go? Nobody knows And I try and I try And it tears me all up inside The birds outside my window Want to drive this stupid song into my head

And nobody knows it but me. I should have been chasing you, That you were all that mattered to me, That I kept inside of me and maybe, That what we had was all we ever need. I should have been trying to prove, I should have said all the things, I could

And nobody knows it but me. I should have been chasing you, That you were all that mattered to me, That I kept inside of me and maybe, That what we had was all we ever need. I should have been trying to prove, I should have said all the things, I could